FiberGlass Recurve Bows
Fiberglass recurve bows usually work well for SCA archery. They are cheap and very durable. They are often of the long bow shape with reflex tips which add to the bows cast.
The problems to watch for in these bows are splits or raised fibers along the bow's edges due to abuse of the bow. These can easily grow into vertical cracks. However, if the bow is clean and not abused, they seem to last forever, and are usually very cheap, $5 to $15 for a nice bow. These do seem to make good starter SCA target archery bows.
Solid fiberglass bows make good combat archery bows. They are very tough, and cheap enough that being abused in a melee situation is not a financial disaster. I would not want to put a hundred plus dollar composite fiberglass and wood core bow on the combat archery field.
